Credits Required
Total credits in the minor:
- 13 for CHHS students
- 12 for ESTP students
- 17 for students in other CSUMB majors
Outcomes, Courses and Assessment
You may add the Environmental Health Policy minor to your course of study at any time during your undergraduate studies at CSUMB. However, if you think you are interested in the EHP minor, you should contact one of the program faculty as early as possible, so that you can integrate the minor requirements into your Individual Learning Plan (ILP).
The following CHHS and ESTP Learning Outcomes (LO) represent the knowledge, skills and abilities you are expected to master to successfully complete the minor degree and demonstrate your competence. You must achieve each of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses.
Learning Outcomes (LOs)
Knowledge of Health and Human Services ~ Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles and issues common to the major fields of health and human services including community health, social welfare and public policy; and demonstrate competence in the selected areas of concentration
Professional Development ~ Demonstrate ability to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for growth and development as an entry-level professional by producing evidence of increasing self-awareness and self-correcting behaviors
Public Policy Analysis ~ Demonstrate ability to critically analyze public policy issues and begin to master the skills necessary to identify and define public policy problems, analyze existing policies, develop alternatives to current policy and recommend alternatives
Policy Competency ~ Students must understand and accurately communicate state, federal and local political structures and processes and their relationships, as well as landmark environmental laws and regulations.
Systems Approach to Environmental Decision Making ~ Students must be able to apply general systems theory, systems modeling, stakeholder analysis, cost/benefit analysis or other interdisciplinary analysis tools to evaluate the equitability and the effectiveness of alternative environmental decisions, policies or actions.
Courses
Requirements for this minor provide students with significant breadth and appropriate depth of knowledge and skills in environmental politics and economics, environmental health issues, public health assessment and education, and policy analysis.
Pathway #1: CHHS majors
Complete all of the following:
ENVS 309: Sci & Policy of Global Change
ENVS 384: Social & Ecological Justice ENVS 384S: Social & Ecological Justice SL
ENVS 387: Water Resource Assess/Law/Poli
Pathway #2: ESTP majors
Complete all of the following:
PH 320: Intro to Community Health
PH 420: Multicult Health Ed & Promot
CHHS 450: Intro to Policy Analysis
Pathway #3: All other majors
Complete all of the following:
PH 320: Intro to Community Health
CHHS 450: Intro to Policy Analysis ENVS 384: Social & Ecological Justice ENVS 384S: Social & Ecological Justice SL
And one of the following:
ENVS 309: Sci & Policy of Global Change
OR ENVS 387: Water Resource Assess/Law/Poli